The center of the Milky Way, which is referred to as "the core," is best visible beginning in June across the Northern ...

It may be our galactic neighborhood, but it is not always easy to see. However, that is about to change. For the next several months, the iconic band of hazy light, known as the Milky Way, should ...

A star drifting at the outermost reaches of the Milky Way has turned out to be the most chemically pristine stellar object ...

The temperature difference is not subtle. One side of the Milky Way’s outer halo runs noticeably hotter than the other, a ...

"Milky Way season," when our galaxy's bright center is most visible, is now beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. The best time to see the Milky Way in the US is generally from March to September.

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

As warm spring nights settle over Alabama, stargazers have a treat waiting overhead: the Milky Way. For the next several months, the galaxy’s luminous core spans the sky. No telescope needed—just a ...

Our Milky Way's halo of hot gas is warmer to the "south" than the "north" because of an internal combustion engine-like ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...

Because I’m based in the northern hemisphere, my suggestions of what to look for in the skies can sometimes be skewed towards what we can see from that half of the planet. So, in this month’s column I ...